Former White House adviser Karl Rove criticized President Barack Obama on Thursday for golfing directly after delivering remarks on the death of James Foley, relating this “mistake” to criticisms that former President George W. Bush once faced.

“Somebody made a mistake, they should have thought this thing through,” Rove said on Fox News. “They should have said, ‘The president is going to go out and make a comment on this so … why don’t we get the tee time tomorrow, or why don’t we get the tee time in four or five hours rather than eight minutes later.’”

White House press pool reports showed that the president left his remarks about ISIL’s beheading of an American journalist to spend time on a golf course. The president is currently vacationing in Martha’s Vineyard.

As Bush’s former senior adviser and deputy chief of staff during his time at the White House, Rove said that he is familiar with the condemnation of presidential vacations by the media. During his presidency, Bush took 879 vacation days, including 77 trips to his ranch in Texas, according to an analysis by The Washington Post.

Rove explained that after Bush delivered a speech commenting on an attack on Israel while vacationing in New England, he decided to put away the putter for the rest of his presidency.

“This really caused President Bush to examine his behavior in a time of war, and it ultimately caused him to decide to give up golf for the balance of his presidency,” Rove said. “He just couldn’t square the gap, the visual gap, between having to make statements like the statements President Obama had to make and being on the golf course.”